On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:45:11 -0500 frank pirrone <frankpirrone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:23:22AM -0500, Darren Landrum wrote: > > > >> http://vamp-plugins.org/ > > > > One more 'vamp': in Italian a 'vampa' is a big > > flame. Like in: > > > > Stride la vampa! La folla indomita > > corre a quel foco lieta in sembianza. > > Urli di gioia intorno echeggiano. > > > > A big flame rises up! The wild and excited > > crowd assembles around the fire, cries of > > joy echo around. > > > > Azucena, decribing her mother's execution > > at the stake, from Verdi's Il Trovatore. > > > > Ciao, > > > Vamp is an actual music term meaning improvisation, so to vamp is to > improvise and a vamp is an improvisation. Not clear how this name > "implies" this project, but it's connected at least by music. > > Frank In my neck of the woods it was used as a slightly derogatory term to describe the playing of pub pianists that simply hit crash chords, more or less in time, and more or less on key :o -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
